Immunity Map Worksheet Find the full article, …

1 Behaviors That Go Against My Goal_____Big Assumptions_____Choose a goal that would make a big difference, one you truly want to achieve. Ask yourself (or imagine asking a group of people who know you well): What is the single most powerful change I could I make to improve my life (or work performance, relationship, finances, etc.)? Next, specify what concrete behaviors are necessary to achieve this goal. Frame them as positive statements (for exam-ple, delegate more vs. stop doing all the work myself ).

2 Ask yourself (or an imagined observer): What s the thing you do, or don t do, that most gets in the way of your goal? Take stock of the things you do instead of the behaviors that could create positive don t need to explain or understand your obstructionist behaviors. Just notice them and write them down. Define your actions, not your fears go into a worry box at the top of this column. They can point you to your competing commitments, which you list below the worry you write down your hidden com-mitments, you are now able to see across the three columns how you have one foot on the gas pedal (column 1) and one foot on the brake pedal (column 3).

3 This is the immune system protecting you from feared, undesireable assumptions, says Lahey, are the beliefs and internalized truths we hold about how the world works, how we work, and how people respond to us. They are assumptions that make each hidden com-mitment feel necessary. Look for assumptions that anchor and inform your specific hidden commit-ments. Notice how your assumptions lead to the very behaviors that undermine, rather than support, your Competing Commitments Worry Box: _____Competing Commitments: _____Immunity Map WorksheetImprovement Goal _____What I d need to do differently:_____Find the full article , How to Overcome Immunity to Change, in the May 2011 archives at courtesy of Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey.

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